Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:04:00PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > > (This assumes you haven't set packages

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/06/2000 (15:38) : > That's what it's designed to do. If you look at the package listing > when you select [S]elect, you'll normally see *** against each package. > (This assumes you haven't set packages to "hold".) I see. Does apt-get install something

Re: Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread David Wright
Quoting Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of > swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that > after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it > started not only installing g77, but up

Surprising behaviour of dselect.

2000-06-27 Thread Preben Randhol
I wanted to install g77 and g77-doc on my system. As I got tired of swaping CD-s I set up apt to use the net instead. What happened was that after selecting g77 and g77-doc and choosing install in dselect it started not only installing g77, but upgrading 17 other packages. Among the different packa